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Build the business case for no-code Industrial AI
Estimate value from avoided downtime, reduced scrap, energy savings, and operator time. Use this guide to size a pilot, defend the spend, and align finance and operations on the same number.
Four value pools to size
Most Intelecy business cases recover cost through some combination of these four pools. Size them against last 12 months of data, not against vendor benchmarks.
- Avoided downtime — €/hour of stoppage × forecast hours avoided.
- Reduced scrap and rework — €/ton off-spec × forecast tons recovered.
- Energy savings — kWh / ton × normalized reduction × tariff.
- Operator time — hours/week of manual chasing replaced by alerts and recommendations.
Pilot sizing rules
- Pick one constrained unit with reliable historian data.
- Define a single operational outcome (uptime, scrap, kWh/ton).
- Set a baseline window of 6–12 months.
- Agree the verification method with finance before the pilot starts.
What this guide replaces
- A blank spreadsheet that nobody on the operations side trusts.
- Vendor-supplied benchmarks unrelated to your unit.
- Six-month internal back-and-forth before the first pilot.
Want help applying this to your plant?
Bring the unit, outcome, and one historian export — we will show how the Intelecy workflow maps to your numbers.